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Editor’s note: Adam Rodnitzky is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Favo.rs. He programmed his first startup using ColdFusion in 1999. Rodnitzky is based in San Francisco, and you can follow him on Twitter @rodtwitzky. The entrepreneurial world loves nothing like a good meme. One of the more recent ones making the rounds from...

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Online travel pricing site Kayak has revealed that it has dropped its BlackBerry app after it came to “practical” decision to cease supporting the RIM platform, which it says is attracting lessening interest. The company announced the decision in a statement that explained that things weren’t working out with the troubled smartphone platform:...

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Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire Instagram. The compensation will be approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. The purchase will expand Facebook’s prowess in online photo sharing. Mark Zuckerberg posted the following letter to his Timeline about the purchase: I’m excited to share the news that we’ve...

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later. And the latest news comes not from the company itself, but from the FCC, which just today published the internal photos...

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Another bit of closure for Digg as the company continues to look for a buyer of its technology and its site: its engineering team is joining SocialCode, the social media advertising and analytics subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. We first wrote about the engineers getting hired by WaPo on...

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Netvibes, the San Francisco-based startup that allows people and brands to create personalized RSS feed dashboards, announced Wednesday evening it has been acquired by French enterprise software firm Dassault Systèmes. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. The deal makes sense on a few levels, as Netvibes’ engineering...

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Andrew Mason, co-founder and CEO of Groupon, says the company wants to build an ‘Operating System for Local Commerce’ in a letter to stockholders that was just filed with the SEC and published on the Groupon blog. Mason reiterated that, in 2011, Groupon sold more than 170 million Groupons to...

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Facebook just bought Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg just announced the news on Facebook: I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family....

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In its latest move to get top technical students to New York and started on new projects, the city’s Cornell campus has named a top technologist to a new position. Greg Pass, the former CTO of Twitter and previously the cofounder of search startup Summize, is now its Founding Entrepreneurial...

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The creators of Firebase: Michael Lehenbauer, Vikrum Nijjar, Andrew Lee and James Tamplin. Photo: Wired/Ariel Zambelich Melih Onvural ran into James Tamplin one morning while riding into San Francisco on a streetcar. Onvural had a laptop. Tamplin had Firebase. And by the time they reached downtown, they’d built a chat...

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Online advertising company Rubicon Project just announced that it’s getting into the mobile market by acquiring a startup called Mobsmith. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in the initial announcement. I’ve asked Rubicon for more details and will update if I hear back. The company does say...

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What do you do when you’re a consumer apps company with apps that never hit the big-time, but whose development forced you to solve the same problems over and over again? Well, if you’re Border Stylo (makers of Glass, Retrollect, and Trivia Together), you turn your knowledge of developers’ needs...

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In December, an apparent bug appeared in Apple's iMessage service that allowed iMessages to be sent to a stolen iPhone. The messages can, apparently, continue to be sent and received from the stolen phone after a remote wipe and a SIM card deactivation. This is obviously an unintended action, and...

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Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part excerpt from the book The Startup Owner’s Manual, a step-by-step how-to guide for entrepreneurs. In this excerpt, authors Steve Blank and Bob Dorf continue to explain the Customer Discovery Philosophy (see Part One, "Is Your Startup a Valid Vision or Just a...

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While Twitter’s performance is leaps and bounds above their previous “fail whale” days, it will only get faster. In a blog post yesterday, the Twitter engineering team announced that they have reviewed their entire technology stack in a mission to optimize the site’s speed.... Please visit Marketing Land for the full article....

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Microsoft's Windows Phone engineering team is currently testing the Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The dual-core 1.5GHz system-on-chip is undergoing tests to make it ready for at least one Windows Phone 8 handset due later this year. Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 has been making...

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An Australian startup that incentivises and monetizes errands has launched its iPhone app having raised $1.5 million, just two months after launching. Airtasker, which operates like Craigslist-for-chores, can be used to sell all manner of jobs to ‘runners’, who earn money by carrying out duties listed on the site. Tasks...

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Adrian Aoun is bringing the Facebook ethos the rest of the web -- and then some. (Photo: Wired/Jon Snyder) Adrian Aoun wants to build a system that instantly understands everything posted to the internet. He started the project about three years ago, and on Wednesday, he and his company, Wavii,...

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The social analytics company Hotspots.io has been acquired by Twitter, and its team will be joining the revenue engineering department there, according to a splash page on its website. More to follow...

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SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., announced Thursday that it has hired 15 members from the engineering team at the social news site Digg. Digg was once one of Silicon Valley’s most promising start-ups. But the service, which allows readers to vote on...

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Today we’re launching Twitter in four new languages: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.We first added these four languages to the Twitter Translation Center on January 25. Thirteen thousand volunteers around the globe immediately got to work, translating and localizing Twitter.com into these languages in record time. Thanks to their contributions,...

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Hotspots.io, a startup promising to deliver “social media intelligence that you’ll actually use”, just announced on its home page that it has been acquired by Twitter. It looks like Hotspots was still in private beta, and as a result, the site doesn’t have any product details. However, you can see...

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Facebook is acquiring Instagram for $1 billion, and Instagram’s team will be joining Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg announced the deal in a Facebook post: I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook. For years, we’ve focused on...

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has just announces that the company has acquired Instagram for $1 billion. Full announcement is below: I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook. For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for...

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[This post is by Xavier Ducrohet and Reto Meier of the Android engineering team. — Tim Bray.]The Android emulator is a key tool for Android developers in building and testing their apps. As the power and diversity of Android devices has grown quickly, it’s been hard for the emulator keep...

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Nitro, a company that you’ve probably heard of at some point due to the popularity of its PDF tools, has changed its tack and taken on capital to expand its operations. Up to this point in the company’s history, it has been self-funded, focusing on profitability. However, flush with $3.5...

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Facebook has acquired the photo-sharing website Instagram for a reported $1bnFacebook has bought the photo-sharing website Instagram for a reported $1bn.Here's the full statement by founder Mark Zuckerberg issued on the Facebook website.Statement by Mark ZuckerbergI'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their...

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Amir Michael, the engineer who leads Facebook's hardware design team (Photos: Wired/Jon Snyder) Imagine that your laptop display weighs 800 pounds. But you can still open it and close it and re-open it as you like, gently pushing it to just the right angle. And when you let go, it...

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It seems like every other day someone is poking a new security hole in Flash Player or Adobe's issuing another patch to fix one. To make it harder for people to exploit vulnerabilities in the rich media player, Adobe is working on a sandboxed Firefox version for Vista and...